“Tristana” quotes

Plot – A young orphan girl, Tristana, is entrusted to an elderly tutor, Don Lope, who beside his role of putative father tries to seduce the girl and becomes her lover. For a while, Tristana accepts the situation, until one day she meets a painter, Horacio, and leaves Don Lope. The girl will return two years later, after contracting a serious illness and leaving Horacio, and will marry Don Lope. When the old man will have a heart attack she will watch him die without calling for help.

“- Don Lope: It's true that there are no longer men of my kind. Of our kind.- Don Zenón: One thing that has not changed between yesterday and today. The taste for ladies.- Don Lope: I totally agree, but today there is so much effeminacy.”Fernando Rey - Don Lope
José María Caffarel - Don Zenón

“- Horacio: I want you to be my wife.- Tristana: I'll live with you for as long as you love me. If you ever get tired of me, we'll each go our own way.”Franco Nero - Horacio
Catherine Deneuve - Tristana

“When we meet with a woman, if she is consenting and if we can make her consent, then the encounter should be pleasant. But there are two exceptions: the wife of a friend and that strange flower, so rare, that is born from perfect innocence.”Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“- Don Lope: Look at that couple. Don't you get the sickly scent of conjugal happiness?- Tristana: I don't understand.- Don Lope: Did you see that bovine look of resignation? That boredom? Farewell, love. Never get married, Tristana.- Tristana: One can be free and honorable.- Don Lope: Exactly. Passion must be free. It's a law of nature. No...” (continue)(continue reading)Fernando Rey - Don Lope
Catherine Deneuve - Tristana

“- Don Zenón: And the Ten Commandments?- Don Lope: I respect all of them, except those to do with sex, because I'm sure they were added to the truly divine ones by Moses for political reasons that don't affect me.”José María Caffarel - Don Zenón
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“Work is a curse, Saturno. Down with work that you have to do to survive. That work isn't honorable, as some say. All it does is fatten the exploiting swine. However, what you do for pleasure ennobles man. If only we could all work like that. Look at me, I'd rather be hanged than work! So, I live poorly, but I live without working.”Fernando Rey - Don Lope